A 43-year-old Antioch woman is being held on $75,000 bail after police say she assaulted someone with a deadly weapon near a 7-Eleven and 76 gas station on Hillcrest Avenue Thursday afternoon. Aurelia Victoria Grayson now faces a stack of felony and misdemeanor charges, along with an unrelated civil lawsuit accusing her of elder abuse.
According to the Antioch Herald, which cited the Antioch Police Department's CitizenRIMS log, the incident unfolded just after noon on Thursday in the 2700 block of Hillcrest Avenue, the same stretch where the Hillcrest 7-Eleven sits beside a 76 gas station. Police records show the confrontation occurred at 12:05 p.m., and Grayson was taken into custody less than an hour later, at 1:00 p.m.
Grayson is described in police records as a Black or African American woman standing five feet two inches tall and weighing 225 pounds, per the same report. She was booked on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon that was not a firearm under California Penal Code 245(a)(1) and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize under Penal Code 422(a), as noted by Antioch Herald. She was also taken in on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant for aggravated assault from another case.
Protective Order Violation Adds to the Charges
On top of the felony counts, Grayson is charged with a misdemeanor violation of a protective order under Penal Code 273.6(A), which covers the intentional and knowing violation of such an order. The article notes that the aggravated assault charge alone carries a potential sentence of two, three, or four years in state prison, or up to a year in county jail, along with a fine of as much as $10,000 — or both. The felony threat charge likewise carries the possibility of state prison time, the report states.
Grayson is currently being held at the West County Detention Facility, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office as relayed in the report. Her $75,000 bail has not been posted, per the same account.
Separate Elder Abuse Lawsuit Filed Last Month
Court records cited in the article show Grayson is also the subject of a civil lawsuit filed in Alameda County by Victor Grayson on September 8, accusing her of elder abuse, according to Antioch Herald. That filing, attributed to Trellis.law records in the Antioch Herald's reporting, includes a request for a temporary restraining order and a protective order for elder or dependent adult abuse. It is not clear from available records whether that civil case is connected to the criminal charges filed against her this week.
The Hillcrest Avenue corridor has drawn police attention before: a separate report from Antioch Herald described a registered sex offender arrested for arson at the same 7-Eleven on Hillcrest Avenue, held on $70,000 bail, though the full details of that case were not independently verified beyond a brief search snippet.
